accent mark

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Noun

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accent mark - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation accent language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" diacritic, diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation stress mark - a mark indicating the stress on a syllable acute, acute accent, ague - a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation grave accent, grave - a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation